California-based composer D'Arcy Reynolds' Cloven Dreams will be presented by South Africa's Sontonga String Quartet on Saturday, June 17 - 8 PM at Gallery 305, located at 305 Miners Trail Road in Grass Valley, California.

Cloven Dreams, which was commissioned by East/West Continuo of Portland, Oregon, after a group member visited Helen Martins' Owl House in South Africa in the Summer of 2002, is a programmatic work in three sections, which takes the listener from the exterior Camel Yard to the interior of Owl House, followed by the transmutation of this material when the Little Devil Enters the Camel Yard in the third and final section of the piece. The third section represents the integration of the "inner" and "outer" aspects of Ms. Martins' home and inner life. Other composers on the program will include Peter Louis van Dijk, Juistinian Tamusuza and Priaulx Rainier.

Tickets for this concert are $10 and will be available at the door. For reservations or other information, please call 530 478-0572.

Formed in 2002, the Sontonga Quartet was immediately engaged to tour internationally with Confessions of Zeno,a multimedia collaboration with the renowned Handspring Puppet Company, the internationally acclaimed artist William Kentridge, and Kevin Volans, one of South Africa's most lauded composers. The quartet has established itself as one of the finest exponents of both the classical and contemporary repertoire. In its first 3 years, it gave world premieres of works by more than a dozen South African composers to South African premieres of works by Arvo Part, Peter Louis van Dijk and Henryk Gorecki. Their repertoire list already includes more than 30 works by South African composers, who they perform throughout South Africa as well as abroad, so that these composers might receive the international recognition. Visit them online at http://www.sontongaquartet.com.

D'Arcy Reynolds is a well-known composer on the West Coast where her compositions have been premiered at numerous concert halls and music festivals. She has written works for orchestra, chamber orchestra, chorus, chamber ensemble, voice and piano. Recent premieres include "Cloven Dreams" for flute and string trio, performed by Tessa Brinckman & the East/West Continuo in Portland, Oregon, "Elegy" by the San Jose Chamber Orchestra, "21" for piano, and "The Past Keeps Changing", performed at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. In recognition for her outstanding work, D'Arcy has won several grants from such prestigious organizations as ASCAP, the American Composers Forum, American Music Center and Meet the Composer. In addition to her work as a composer and pianist, Ms Reynolds studies North Indian Raga Music with Terry Riley. She is the founding Director of the American Composers Forum San Francisco Chapter, and serves on the Board of the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music. Visit her website at http://www.darcyreynolds.com/.

For more information about D'Arcy Reynolds, please contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net.

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